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12-May-2006, 04:53 PM #1
The Death of The Internet?
from http://www.coanews.org/tiki-read_art...?articleId=891

Video By Steve Anderson - May 11 2006

Major telecommunications companies are spending millions lobbying the U.S. congress to make the Internet into a private network. In political lingo this means abandoning what is called “Net Neutrality”. In common sense terms it’s about the government withdrawing our right to Internet Freedom, it’s about the Death of The Internet. This V-Doc. (viral documentary) produced by COA News managing editor Steve Anderson, is about the current threat to Internet Freedom and how we can hold on to the open Internet and our right to communicate.

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12-May-2006, 04:55 PM #2
Bush wants to turn it over to the same people that let him gather phone #'s without warrants!
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12-May-2006, 04:56 PM #3
*plays taps*
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12-May-2006, 05:12 PM #4
The failure of the xxx domain was political and maybe forums will be targeted in the near
future.
http://news.com.com/Congress+targets...3-6071040.html
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12-May-2006, 05:28 PM #5
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*plays taps*
NO NO NO man speak up there are links with the video to help you do so .
I thought that if anyone would care about this matter this crowed would
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12-May-2006, 07:41 PM #6
Don't be worried, the Internet is far too large and incomprehensive for these guys to try and regulate.

It's basically a whole bunch of hot air that's been blown before, and nothing to worry about.
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12-May-2006, 08:00 PM #7
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Bush wants to turn it over to the same people that let him gather phone #'s without warrants!
Inaccurate.

People, people, people. This is NOT a political issue of Right vs. Left. So don't even THINK about turning it into one.

Network neutrality is an issue that both Democrats and Republicans are coming together and agreeing on. This is not a issue of Republican vs. Democrat, this is an issue of the old-guard wire carriers (AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth, etc.) vs. the new-guard web giants (Google, eBay, Amazon, etc.). The telecoms want to "prioritize" network traffic on the "pipes" that they own, so that network traffic that originates from their customers is given better speed, quality, etc., as compared to network traffic that originates from competitors.

Also, the telecoms want to begin to charge high-traffic websites such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and so on, so that packets being sent to and sent from those websites is "insured" against being filtered or bumped. In essence, they are wanting to start a packet protection racket.

To put it in an analogy, they want to turn the Information Superhighway--in which every non-malicious packet is equal to every other non-malicious packet-- into the Information Tollroad, in which packets are discriminated against or towards, based on the sender (and reciever's, too!) financial relationship with the company operating the road.

And if that wasn't bad enough, they want to approach companies whose profits depend on the quality of the road and how fast the product got to the consumer, and charge them "insurance" that their products will be allowed to be shipped via the roads!

For more information on network neutrality see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
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18-May-2006, 08:03 PM #8
more on the topic

http://esterrepublic.blogspot.com/20...eutrality.html

Ted Stevens vs. net neutrality
Senator Stevens' telecom bill will change internet regulation such that internet servers can distort what appears on a search or limit content posted according to what you can pay--or perhaps, what they don't want you to see. Here's what Buzzflash has to say about it:

The United States Congress is currently drafting a bill known as “The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Efficiency Act of 2006”, known as “COPE.” This means privatizing the Internet, by allowing such private corporations as AT&T, BellSouth, Verizon and others to actually own it, and, in the process operate the Internet and other digital communications services as private networks. The bill very, very clearly states that “certain classes of Internet providers may-- not unreasonably-- impair, interfere, restrict or limit applications or services such as Web sites or voice-over IP phone connections.”

So the public will no longer have open access to the web. We'll only have what the big guys want us to see (unless we already know exactly where the information is, or the info provider happens to find a free and open service provider). Read Josh Silver's discussion of the regulations and net neutrality--and the megabucks these companies are trying to make off us.

And this bill is all very chummy, as Jason Lee Miller points out in his Webpronews.com column: Stevens' biggest campaign contributors include those who would benefit most by this legislation--News Corp., Verizon, Viacom, AT&T, Sprint...are we surprised that our senator is apparently bought and paid for?

The San Francisco Chronicle describes how this works, and how the House dropped net neutrality. In the Senate, in an example of typical Democrat thought inversion, Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye agreed to cosponsor Stevens' version of the bill: "My co-sponsorship...is not a demonstration of support for the bill itself." Uh, isn't co-sponsorship supposed to BE support for what you sponsor? It sure functions that way...

Stevens' rationale is that the FCC should monitor the market over a five-year period and then figure out what to do, which sounds reasonable, except that, of course, his bill will already establish or allow certain reprehensible practices, as per above.

Save the Internet.com has more on this, as does Free Press.net.
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18-May-2006, 11:07 PM #9
Good grief..If it works, don't fix it....
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19-May-2006, 12:06 AM #10
in 1999 I had aol and my ISP would not allow me to connect to this web site http://www.starsrainbowrideboard.org...irror/rainbow/
or others like it until I called to cancle my service with them over it there excuse was they were protecting children by blocking that site BUT I could bring up porn all day long I dumped aol anyway
sooo
my point is I have been locked out of web sites by my ISP so this matters more to me than it dose to some people some people
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19-May-2006, 12:19 AM #11
Well, what is your connection right now?
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